--- title: Numbers 32:16 — And they came near unto him, and said: 'We will build sheepfolds her… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And they came near unto him, and said: 'We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones; Who acts: fathers, We. Numbers 32:16 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Numbers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/) / [chapter 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/32/) / 32:16 # Numbers 32:16 בְּמִדְבַּר **Who acts:** fathers, We · **What happens:** come, say, build · **To what, where:** sheepfolds · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Numbers 32:16 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — fathers, We — and what happens in the verse to sheepfolds, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 36 chapters of Numbers on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וַיִּגְּשׁ֤וּ אֵלָיו֙ וַ֣יֹּאמְר֔וּ גִּדְרֹ֥ת צֹ֛אן נִבְנֶ֥ה לְמִקְנֵ֖נוּ פֹּ֑ה וְעָרִ֖ים לְטַפֵּֽנוּ׃ [And they came near unto him, and said: 'We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1164/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:NUM:1130 # text = וַיִּגְּשׁ֤וּ אֵלָיו֙ וַ֣יֹּאמְר֔וּ גִּדְרֹ֥ת צֹ֛אן נִבְנֶ֥ה לְמִקְנֵ֖נוּ פֹּ֑ה וְעָרִ֖ים לְטַפֵּֽנוּ׃ # verse = NUM.32.16 1-2 וַיִּגְּשׁ֤וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_32:16!1|MId=o040320160011|Strong=2050b 2 יִּגְּשׁ֤וּ נָגַשׁ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.drew.near|Ref=NUM_32:16!1|MId=o040320160012|Strong=5066|Frame=A0:040320060032;040320060053;|Type=wayyiqtol 3-4 אֵלָיו֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 אֵלָי אֶל ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NUM_32:16!2|MId=o040320160021|Strong=0413 4 ו֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ Gloss=him|Ref=NUM_32:16!2|MId=o040320160022|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 5-6 וַ֣יֹּאמְר֔וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 וַ֣ וְ CCONJ _ _ 6 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_32:16!3|MId=o040320160031|Strong=2050b 6 יֹּאמְר֔וּ אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=they.said|Ref=NUM_32:16!3|MId=o040320160032|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:040320060032;040320060053;|Type=wayyiqtol 7 גִּדְרֹ֥ת גְּדֵרָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 9 obj _ Gloss=folds|Ref=NUM_32:16!4|MId=o040320160041|Strong=1448 8 צֹ֛אן צֹאן NOUN _ Number=Sing 7 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.sheep|Ref=NUM_32:16!5|MId=o040320160051|Strong=6629 9 נִבְנֶ֥ה בָּנָה VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=1 6 ccomp _ Gloss=we.will.build|Ref=NUM_32:16!6|MId=o040320160061|Strong=1129|Frame=A0:040320060032;040320060053;A1:040320160041;|Type=yiqtol 10-12 לְמִקְנֵ֖נוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=NUM_32:16!7|MId=o040320160071|Strong=3807a 11 מִקְנ מִקְנֶה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 obl _ Gloss=livestock|Ref=NUM_32:16!7|MId=o040320160072|Strong=4735 12 ֵ֖נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Gloss=our|Ref=NUM_32:16!7|MId=o040320160073|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 13 פֹּ֑ה פֹּה ADV _ _ 9 advmod _ Gloss=here|Ref=NUM_32:16!8|MId=o040320160081|Strong=6311 14-15 וְעָרִ֖ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 15 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_32:16!9|MId=o040320160091|Strong=2050b 15 עָרִ֖ים עִיר NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 9 conj _ Gloss=cities|Ref=NUM_32:16!9|MId=o040320160092|Strong=5892 16-18 לְטַפֵּֽנוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=NUM_32:16!10|MId=o040320160101|Strong=3807a 17 טַפּ טַף NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 obl _ Gloss=our.little|Ref=NUM_32:16!10|MId=o040320160102|Strong=2945 18 ֵֽנוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ Gloss=one[s]|Ref=NUM_32:16!10|MId=o040320160103|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 19 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 18 punct _ Ref=NUM_32:16!10 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִּגְּשׁוּ *they drew near* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | | יֹּאמְרוּ *they said* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | | נִבְנֶה *we will build* | yiqtol · qal | | גִּדְרֹת *folds* | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos} וּקְרִיבוּ לְוָתֵיהּ וַאֲמָרוּ חַטְרִין דְעָאן נִבְנֵי לִבְעִירָנָא הָכָא וְקִרְוִין לְטַפְלָנָא The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [And they came near unto him, and said: 'We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1164/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). Hebrew sentence `wlc:NUM:1130`. - ← previous: [Numbers 32:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.15/) - next →: [Numbers 32:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.17/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/32/)